David Kopca
Manager Professional Services, Program Manager at Palo Alto Networks
- Role
- Senior Manager Professional Services at Palo Alto Networks
- Location
- Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About David Kopca
15+ years of experience as a professional services leader with extensive experience in…
Experience
Senior Manager Professional Services
Jan 2017 — Present · Plano, TX, US
Manage a team of project managers responsible for delivery of customer projects, including managing deployment resources and ensuring all deliverables are met, delivered on-time, and under budget. Develop project managers and actively use Individual Development Plans in alignment with strategic goals. Work closely with the head of the PMO and Professional Services Manager on key initiatives and drive improvement of key metrics and transformation.• Led the west project management team with successful delivery of over 90 services projects over the past year. Concentrated on the transformation customers using Palo Alto Networks firewalls and leveraging the full set of advanced features and functionality.• Increased focus on consultant and project manager resource utilization. Improvements to project management practices and processes resulting in a 18% increase over a 1-year period.• Acting as lead for assisting and tracking project managers on a world-wide basis achieve PMP certification. Also, implementing steps to develop and strengthen the soft skills of project managers.
Education
The University of Texas at Dallas
MS
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
BS
Skills
- Managed Services
- Proposal Writing
- Storage
- Consulting
- Enterprise Storage
- Business Process
- Virtualization
- Professional Services
- Strategic Partnerships
- Itil
- Strategic Planning
- Pmp
- Leadership
- Disaster Recovery
- Business Development
- Business Acumen
- Business Planning
- Risk Management
- Team Management
- Data Center
- Proposal Preparation
- Project Estimation
- Organizational Learning
- Strategy
- Saas
- Enterprise Software
- Enterprise Architecture
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Cloud Computing
- Cross-Functional Coordination
- Program Management
- Project Management
- Proposal Management
- Storage Solutions
- Pre-Sales
- Infrastructure
- Information Technology
- Change Management
- Management
- Team Leadership
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